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Today, the Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years. Let me repeat: The Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years.


Alcee Hastings

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JON CORZINE At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker...
BERNIE SANDERS Less than 3 percent of workers make straight minimum wage.
JAMES HARDWAY The state of Alaska has a minimum wage which is higher than the federal level because our state lead...
JOE MILLER Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the mini...
BILL PASCRELL We don't need 50 different minimum wages. Even some cities have their own minimum wage.
JACK CAMPER We believe that, negotiating with the opposition, we won't have trouble approving the biggest minimu...
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HK PRADHAN Our organization is opposed to any increase in the minimum wage. The marketplace should set the mini...
GREGG THOMPSON We know it will be an uphill battle. Establishing a state minimum wage higher than the federal wage ...
FARRELL QUINLAN President Obama has made a minimum wage increase a focal point of his economic agenda.
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ALLEN DOUGLAS You get paid more at McDonald's than you do under the existing minimum wage.
NORM COLEMAN When you think of the amount of turnover and profit made by most companies in this country - and esp...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Inequalities at the bottom of the US wage distribution have closely followed the evolution of thee m...
THOMAS PIKETTY You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vo...
WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vo...
BILL CLINTON There's a statute in the minimum wage law that allows municipalities and cities home rule to [set th...
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JEN KERN The value of the minimum wage shouldn't be eroded, and it has been.
ROBERT J. GARAGIOLA Home Depot has never hired one human being for minimum wage, not one. We have always paid a premium ...
KENNETH LANGONE The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better.
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DON NICKLES Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue.
SHERWOOD BOEHLERT The minimum wage should be a living wage.
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JAMES D. WATSON I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has be...
JAMES WATSON Why is minimum wage a number that is set in stone why don't we treat minimum wage rates like taxes t...
KENNETH WATERS JR Being unemployed - or working at minimum wage - is rough in the best of circumstances.
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MARY LANDRIEU We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal sy...
BARRY MCCAFFREY No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even l...
JON CORZINE The chances, in essence, are less than one in a thousand. Almost 6,000 mergers a year get filed befo...
STEVEN SUNSHINE Minimum wage was last increased in 1997. It?s wrong that people that work full-time can?t support th...
BILL HALTER Any job that pays you is a real job, but unless you can make a living on minimum wage, do not settle...
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NANCY PELOSI The governor still believes it's appropriate for the federal government to take action but inaction ...
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MILTON FRIEDMAN The power to be able to purchase whatsoever you desire is by learning to always positively use the p...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The real minimum wage is zero.
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BILL GATES Increasing the minimum wage would be a good thing. You can't eat off the minimum wage. You can't aff...
DANNY THOMPSON I'll say it will hurt minimum wage workers the most.
JAMES COLLINS Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage th...
THOMAS SOWELL Let me just go on record and say this: I am not for decreasing the minimum wage.
LINDA MCMAHON They're better right now than at any point last season.
ANTHONY AMMIRATA The real minimum wage is zero unemployment.
THOMAS SOWELL We don't want the minimum wage increase.
ANGELA JONES Atlanta, in the last five years, has created more jobs than any other metropolitan area in the count...
DONALD RATAJCZAK The ongoing task of debt management for the federal government will clearly be very different in the...
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ARI ADLER The reality is for 50 years in this country, federal law has required people that are illegal - or t...
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JOHN M. MCHUGH The biggest thing is the decline in wages for the low and moderate income people. Part of it is larg...
ELIZABETH MCNICHOL Since I grew up, I have never deliberately used any technique at all other than the physical shaping...
PATRICK O'BRIAN maybe the odds are less than 50-50 after yesterday.
GERARD ARPEY Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio.
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GORDON BROWN The pool is over 50 years old and it has absolutely gotten to the point that we need to start over.
BERNADETTE CASTRO The minimum wage was enacted in 1937 during the Great Depression and it has been increased 16 times....
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ANDREW CUOMO Now they are less than 50 percent confident that there will be any rise.
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PATIN HOWARD In the last several years, the federal government has awarded some $11 billion in grants to federal,...
WILLIAM JENKINS A minimum wage leads to higher levels of unemployment.
STEVE HANKE Increasing minimum wage doesn't build a stronger economy.
KAREN HANDEL If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, ...
DAVID KORTEN Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American his...
CARL BERNSTEIN I think a lot of the business owners are already paying above the minimum wage. The minimum wage is ...
BUCK LAYNE No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.
BENJAMIN TODD JEALOUS In the 1960s, a minimum wage job would keep a family of three afloat.
ELIZABETH WARREN I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is ra...
JOHN SUNUNU Whether we were doing the minimum-wage increase or not this year, the wages were still going to go u...
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PAUL COSTA The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is wh...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI This is an effort that we look at as being important for working people across the state. It is past...
BILL HALTER The most eye opening view is the unequivocal support for an increase in the minimum wage.
HUNTER BACOT The book is my effort to describe why the liberal education has declined in the last 50 years and wh...
BRUCE HAYWOOD The thing that was striking about the minimum wage survey is that every group was in favor of increa...
DEAN DEBNAM In the last couple of years, there has definitely been an increase in the number of wage-and-hour ac...
JEFF ROSS There are very few people at the decision-making table to argue for minimum-wage workers. Very few p...
ELIZABETH WARREN I am quite uncomfortable using legislation to peg the minimum wage.
GRACE POE Show me how resource utilization has any impact on inflation in the last 10 years.
JOE CARSON The main thing is to upgrade the Legion. Business has changed dramatically in the last 50 years and ...
DON MACDONALD Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be...
CHRISTINA ROMER I don't think it's empty at the bottom of the well. A lot may have developed in the last 50 years.
FRANK BEISLER It is no small thing for an American to be able to go into a fast-food restaurant and to buy a doubl...
MICHAEL POLLAN Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
JAMES D. WATSON What I want to do is create jobs that make the minimum wage irrelevant.
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GENE SISKEL But that was 50 years ago. A lot has changed in 50 years.
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REED HASTINGS There must be other races out there, watching our tiny yellow sun glimmering in their unknown field ...
ALICE HASTINGS BRADLEY Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170 Belief in God through Christ is th...
JAMES HASTINGS RASHDALL It does not make a very great difference what side of Christ's work attracts us and appeals to us mo...
JAMES HASTINGS RASHDALL The great question for us now is, Do we believe in that love of God which Christ taught by His words...
JAMES HASTINGS RASHDALL Although prayer has been defined as communion with God, aspiration after the highest things, Stopfor...
HORACE L. HASTINGS Sometimes you have to find the strength to forgive someone every time you think of them. It might ge...
NICOLE SHURRI HASTINGS Love is an action, not an explaination.
NICOLE SHURRI HASTINGS Love is the hardest thing to describe, easiest thing felt, most wanted, fragile, life-changing pheno...
NICOLE SHURRI HASTINGS The greatest honor is your children looking up to you one day with respect, where you inspire them t...
NICOLE SHURRI HASTINGS If only love could cure illness, heartache, poverty, or loss. Or, if everyone actually cared, took t...
NICOLE SHURRI HASTINGS